Lead Researchers

John Shanklin

Biology Department Chair, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Jonathan Sweedler

James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair and Professor of Chemistry, Director of School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Jörg Schwender

Researcher, Brookhaven National Laboratory

José Avalos

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

Joshua Rabinowitz

Professor of Chemistry and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University

Kaiyu Guan

Associate Professor of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Kankshita Swaminathan

Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology

Li-Qing Chen

Assistant Professor of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Madhu Khanna

Professor of Ag. and Consumer Econ., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Marshall McDaniel

Associate Professor of Agronomy, Iowa State University

Matthew Hudson

Professor of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Melanie McReynolds

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University

Melannie Hartman

Senior Research Associate, Colorado State University

Nancy Reichert

Professor of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University

Nuria Gomez-Casanovas

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University Agrilife Research